Logging in a Cloud Native Environment

Aug 25, 18

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Logging tools or softwares decouples data sources from backend systems by providing an unified logging layer in between. This layer is important that it allows developers and data analysts, data scientists and AI based automated systems to utilize many types of logs as they generate. It mitigates the risk of "bad data" slowing down and misinforming your organization. It is strongly recommended to start thinking on how to evolve towards building a Unified Logging Layer to take full advantage of all the information going into the log data.

A unified logging layer lets you and your organization make better use of data and iterate more quickly on your software.

A log, in a computing context, is the automatically produced and time-stamped documentation of events relevant to a particular system. Virtually all software applications and systems produce log files.